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This painting shows a view of a calm body of water with greenery surrounding it. Across the water appears to be a hill or shore that slopes upward to the top of the painting, painted in gray and cream tones and covered in palm-like plants in shades of green, brown, and rusty red. A similar plant is visible near the bottom right corner in a dark shade of yellow. The water in the center is painted in shades of blue with some ripples across the top. The brushstrokes are fluid.
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This painting shows a view of a calm body of water with greenery surrounding it. Across the water appears to be a hill or shore that slopes upward to the top of the painting, painted in gray and cream tones and covered in palm-like plants in shades of green, brown, and rusty red. A similar plant is visible near the bottom right corner in a dark shade of yellow. The water in the center is painted in shades of blue with some ripples across the top. The brushstrokes are fluid.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

Blue Spring, Florida

Winslow Homer

Date
1890
Medium
watercolor on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 29.8 × 50.8 cm (11 3/4 × 20 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
1975.92.1
Credit line
Gift of Ruth K. Henschel in memory of her husband, Charles R. Henschel
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • United States
  • landscape
  • Waterway
  • Realist
  • Blue Spring
  • FL
Provenance

Charles S. Homer, Jr., by bequest, 1910; (Doll & Richards, Boston, 1912); (J. W. Young Galleries, Chicago, 1913); Mrs. Darwin M. Keith, Rockford, IL, nd; (Findlay Galleries, Chicago, nd); Charles R. Henschel, New York, probably 1936; Ruth K. Henschel (Mrs. Charles R. Henschel), New York, 1956; gift to NGA, 1975

Inscription

lower left in graphite: Winslow Homer 1890; lower right in graphite: Blue Spring Fl.a; upper left verso in graphite: 4 Blue Spring Florida/ St John River/ Ponce de Leon - bloomaf(?)youth; upper center verso in graphite: C(?) 8239-1; lower left verso in graphite: 75886/ 78496

NGA object ID 55576. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.